The main character is Jack Bonafide was am army man who then became Delta Force member and then CIA. Jack is a ranger in the 1980's with a failing marriage. Jack is brought in by CIA in a mission that only he can do. In the 60's Russia created a white tsar hydrogen bomb and a black tsar hydrogen bomb. Only it disappeared and is believed to have been brought into the US piece by piece. Russia is now divided and both sides are trying to find the black tsar and the detonator. Jack is to start looking for missing shipments at the Red River Army Depot and start looking for entry points that the black tsar could have been smuggled through.
Jack goes home and finds out his brother Mac who is a discharge Navy Seal and he goes to see. He then heads over to the Red River Army Depot where he encounters three Russians looking for the black tsar. While he kills one of the Russians, but while the other one tries to kill him, inside CIA operative Carrie Davidson who kills the other Russian and the third one gets away. From this point on, Bonafide and Davidson team up to find the black tsars.
Meanwhile, Bonafides dad Corbett goes to his house to protect his wife and kills two Russian lurking in the field outback. Meanwhile, his wife goes with another operative to find Bonafide and Davidson to New York where the back tsar is expected to be down in the subway. Only Jack doesn't know that the black tsar is just a distraction for the murder of Mr. Feldman who is a close personal friend of the President. Only while Bonafide is headed to Feldman's, Carrie chasing another Russian who has taken a female citizen hostage.
Arkady who has already infiltrated Feldman's home, who shoots the other Russians with him and strikes a bargain with Feldman to make him a citizen with full amunity for all past crimes. The President agrees to it and Bonafide is told to step down and is taken off the case. In the meantime Davidson takes a head shot at the Russian and ends up killing the female citizen as well in the process. Davidson is now in jail.
Now the Russian who escaped at the Red River Army Depot steps forward and teams up with Jack to terminate the remaining Russian sleeper agents before they just start killing Americans. They also bring in Bonafides and his wife's fathers and break Davidson out of jail to create their own team to go after the remaining Russians and retribution for Mac Bonafide and Angelina Bonafide's murder.
The book is well written and has constant twists and turns. There is so much actions that its hard to put the book down and makes you feel like you are right there in the story. It is a great book and I look forward to the sequel.
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A Real Thriller That Thrills on All Fronts!
Format: Kindle Edition The Black Tsar: A Thriller (Jack Bonafide Book 1) by Jordan Vezina is one book that you will keep on reading, once you’ve started it. The reason is that it is genuinely a real thriller in every sense of the word that matters most. It is a spy thriller that is loaded up with pure action, adrenaline, and lots of other vital things that make a work of fiction something to remember. The Black Tsar is all about one man’s quest to find a hydrogen bomb that goes missing. It is also the official first book, Book 1, to the Jack Bonafide series, which introduces the extraordinary character of Jack Bonafide. Jack Bonafide is a First Sergeant of the Army. He is also a Special Forces Operative with Delta. However, despite being a founding member of the Delta Force, he is let go and the CIA. He is given an order to stand down. Nonetheless, this doesn't stop him, and nothing will get in his way from carrying out his own business. He may even become rogue to achieve a mission if necessary.What is the Black Tsar? The Black Tsar is a myth, according to some in the intelligence community, dubbed the most powerful of all hydrogen bombs in human history. But the tale isn’t a myth at all, come to find out, when the weapon suddenly disappears from a dark warehouse that is in Sarov, Russia. The bomb has now been tracked to being somewhere within the United States. There is only one unique operative who can determine its location and that someone is no other than Sergeant Bonafide. It is because he is a real hero, and being a hero, he knows how to get past his own issues and habits to get the job done.Black Tsar is an engaging story that is set during 1981 and at the height of the Cold War. What this novel has is never-ending action, lots of plot twists that keep readers guessing, and the delivery of a real struggle to save the future of the free world. Those who read this book will indeed get an adventure to keep for always.
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